All delegates are welcome to join the Welcome Reception on Tuesday 24th, 5:30 – 6:30pm. Take this opportunity to grab your badge before the conference starts the next morning, and to network with other eager attendees.
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We are bringing together some of the leading thinkers in our industry to outline their vision of America's water future at this time of extraordinary change. Drought, inflation, climate change, new funding flows, new technologies: everything is in play.
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GWI's ever popular roundtable format returns to address the 30 most important issues shaping America's water industry in 2023.
Doa Ross, Deputy General Manager, SNWA
Reese Johnson, Superintendent, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati
Rashi Gupta, Vice President and Project Manager, Carollo
Cristina Ahmadpour, President, Isle Utilities
Timothy Hogan, Principal and Owner, TWB
Matt Collings, Assistant General Manager & Treasurer, Moulton Niguel Water District
John Kmiec, Director, Tucson Water
Jennifer West, Managing Director, WateReuse Califoia
Edward Fanter, Managing Director, National Bank Financial
Austin Alexander, VP Sustainability & CSR, Xylem
Joseph Giordano, Managing Director, Cowen
David Totman,Innovyze Thought Leadership Strategy, Innovyze, an Autodesk company
Booky Oren, Chairman and CEO, Booky Oren Global Water Technologies
Erika Houtz, Director of Contaminant Destruction Technologies, ECT2
Slava Libman, CEO, FTD Solutions
Kim Dirks, Senior Director EHS Operations, Tyson Foods
G. Patrick O Dowd, Executive Director, Salton Sea Authority
Rahul Subramanian, Senior Project Engineer, Colorado Springs Utilities
Michael Gaugler, Managing Director - Research, Janney
Teigan Gulliver, Senior Water/Wastewater Engineer, HDR Inc
Jud Hill, Senior Operating Advisor, I Squared Capital
John Korpiel, Principal Engineer, Veolia Water Technologies
Ignacio Beneyto, Operations Manager, Acciona
Nigel Sharp, CEO, Aquagga
Cecilia Coates, Climate & Water Lead, Colgate-Palmolive
Jonathan Pressdee, US Water Market Lead, GHD & Jason Lewis, Hydrogen Technical Specialist, GHD
Sean Ton, Plant Manager, Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Joe de Almeida, Director, Water Strategy & Technology, Occidental
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61 Gold Standard utilities have already been inaugurated into the LUOW Network. Join both old and new members as they share their outstanding achievements and find out what they plan to do differently over the next 5 years.
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The American water sector is facing a big squeeze. Input prices are rising quickly, public resistance to tariff increases is growing, and interest rates are ratchetting upwards month on month. How are the treasurers and finance directors planning to manage the crisis?
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How are corporate water strategies evolving to meet the needs of industrial end-users today? Industry is facing pressures from all sides – intensifying climate events, tightening pollutant regulations and a growing global focus on environmental sustainability. Especially in the severely drought-stricken southwestern US, water-reliant industrial end-users have no choice but to set aggressive targets and implement reuse practices in order to ensure operational continuity. Corporate sustainability leaders will discuss how these challenges are influencing their 2030 objectives, the value of reuse to business resilience, and how they will execute water strategies in a world where capital and operating costs are rising.
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The loudest message from this year’s drought was the need to take climate change seriously and utilities are taking it upon themselves to be part of the solution. It is imperative for them to take a holistic view of their emissions, from energy emissions to methane and nitrous oxide to achieve their ambitions for themselves, their cities and the planet. How are utilities rising to the challenge?
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For the last 20 years America's water infrastructure has been built on fixed-price contracts, long payment terms, and global equipment supply networks. These are becoming impossible to sustain. Here we bring together some of the most important players from across the supply chain to discuss the challenges and avert a crisis.
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Water-Positive is the new standard for corporate water stewardship, but there is currently no universally accepted framework or definition associated with this ambition. The session will make sense of how different industries view Water-Positive and whether an agreed framework applicable across industry is needed in order to maximize its impact. Corporate water pioneers will discuss the merits and pitfalls of such a framework.
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